If you have received a hair transplant during in the past 30 years it is perfectly possible that you are not very happy with the end result. If that is the case, you may have benn given the hair transplant known as hair plugs. This form of procedure forces your hair to stick up and seem bristley, but more modern ways are possible for more natural looking hair.
The initial thing you need to do is to find a hair transplant surgeon who has done numerous hair transplant repair surgeries and fixing bad hair grafts is often a specialty for some doctors. You can search for ads in yellow pages or your own primary care physician may know about a operating surgeon who is involved in this kind of work. A good plan is to contact professional organizations. After you locate some doctors to consider, be certain that they allow you to study samples of their procedures since you won’t be able to get an idea of what they can perform on an untouched scalp. In order for you to see how successful they were in handling others problems similar to yours, ask to speak to some prior patients, and if that is not possible, request to at least see photos.
Talk to the surgeon about what can be done to fix your inferior hair transfer job so if you have large hair plugs, ask if the physician will be removing the plugs. The surgeon may want to take them out, break them up into smaller units, and reinsert them but if your plugs are smaller, he may just want to add some new donor hair to lessen the effect of the doll head look. If cost is an issue with you, discuss it with your surgeon as this is a very real problem for many who want to have bad hair transfers fixed. It may cost more to achieve corrective surgical operation and if you are short on resources, your physician can generally suggest several different methods of financing. And so, you will not require all of the money, all at the same time. Discuss healing with your hair transplant surgeon because you may be having plugs removed, which means you have more healing to do than someone who is having a routine hair transplant. Following hair transplant, the sites of plugs, insertion and donor sites need to be allowed to heal, which may take further down-time and special post-operative care.
Investigate with your physician if they plan for you to have another surgical procedure since you might have to get the plugs taken out in one procedure and recover before you have the accompanying operation. It is prudent to anticipate multiple sessions, although your doctor might not know how many treatments you will need until after your initial one. Many people have had a less costly hair transfer and now they are worried about there hair due to a bad transfer. The fact that there are surgeries that can correct these issues is music to their ears and it is a hope they may have never dreamed possible.
